Books By Michael Peters, Gert Biesta - Author

The Authors: Michael A. Peters (mpet001@uiuc.edu) is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed his Bachelor's degree in English Literature and an honors degree in Geography, before attaining a teaching diploma and thereafter teaching in New Zealand high schools for seven years, the last two as head of department. While teaching, he completed a major for a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy and returned full time to complete his Master in Philosophy, with first class honors, and Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education, with a thesis on the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. He has just completed a second book on the subject entitled Wittgenstein as Pedagogical Philosopher (2008) with Nick Burbules and Paul Smeyers. He held a personal chair at the University of Auckland, NZ (2000-2003) and was Research Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK (2000-2005), as well as numerous posts as adjunct and visiting professor throughout the world. He is the executive editor of